Cormac McAnallen (February 11, 1980(1980-02-11)–March 2, 2004), or Cormac Mac An Ailín/ Cormac Mac Conalláin, was an Irish sportsman who played Gaelic football for Tyrone and Eglish from County Tyrone,Northern Ireland. is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gaelic football (Irish: Peil or Caid ), commonly referred to as football, Gaelic or GAA (gah), is a form of football played mainly in Ireland. ... :For more details of Tyrone football see Tyrone Senior Club Football Championship or Tyrone Senior Club Hurling Championship. ... Eglish is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, about 6km southwest of Dungannon. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Omagh Area: 3,155 km² Population (est. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...

Born in Dungannon, and raised in the nearby Brantry area, Cormac McAnallen was a schoolteacher by profession. He taught at St. Benildus College in Dublin and later at St. Catherine's College, Armagh. He won almost every honour in the sport of Gaelic football. In 1998 Cormac captained Tyrone to an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship victory. In 2000 he won a Sigerson Cup title with Queen's University Belfast and later captained Tyrone to two All-Ireland Under-21 titles in 2000 and 2001. He also has a Dublin Senior Club Football Championship with UCD in 2002 ([1]). WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... St. ... Dublin city centre at night WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... The Gaelic Athletic Association The All-Ireland Minor Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the ESB Minor Football Championship) is the premier knockout competition for under-18 competitors of the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland. ... Queens University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland and a member of the Russell Group (a lobby group of major research universities in the United Kingdom). ... The Dublin GAA Crest The Dublin Senior Football Club Championship is an annual club competition between the top Dublin Clubs. ... UCD can refer to: University College Dublin or their association football club University College Dublin FC Democratic Center Union University of California, Davis User-centered design The Universal Child Database, a government database in the United Kingdom. ...

In 2001, McAnallen was named national "Young Footballer of the Year" and Ulster Senior Player of the Year. He was a midfielder of the Tyrone team that won two National Football League titles in 2002 and 2003.

In 2003 he moved to the full-back position and two months later the team won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship for the first time in the county's century-long history of participation in Gaelic Games. This led to him receiving his first All-Star award in 2003. McAnallen also played on Ireland's International rules football team in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Gaelic Athletic Association The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bank of Ireland Football Championship) is the premier knockout competition in the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland. ... International Rules Football match at the Telstra Dome - Australia vs Ireland. ...

Cormac McAnallen had worked prior to his death as a teacher at St. Benildus College in Kilmacud, and was very popular among staff and students. Kilmacud is a suburb in Dublin in the local authority area of Dún Laoghaire. ...

He died suddenly in his sleep on March 2, 2004, aged 24, from an undetected heart condition. His untimely death deeply affected the Tyrone team and the world of Gaelic Games as a whole. Just over week before his death, Cormac captained the Tyrone side that won the Dr. McKenna Cup after an overwhelming victory over Donegal at Ballybofey. is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2004 the "Cormac McAnallen Cup", the cup that Ireland and Australia play for in the International Rules Series, was named in his honour. In January 2005, the Cormac McAnallen’s GAC was also founded in Sydney, Australia. The Cormac McAnallen Cup is the name of the trophy awarded to the winners of the annual International Rules series. ... International Rules Football match at the Telstra Dome - Australia vs Ireland. ...

In February 2005 the Cormac Trust was launched in his memory. Its aims are to raise awareness of conditions causing Sudden Cardiac Death in the young; to promote cardiac screening to detect such conditions; to provide education and information to raise awareness at government level and among other authorities as to the value of providing facilities for the screening of young people; and to provide automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for sports clubs in the local region, and CPR training.

In September 2005, when Tyrone won their 2nd All Ireland football championship, Brian Dooher, the captain of Tyrone, dedicated the victory in Cormac's name in his acceptance speech up in the Hogan Stand. Dooher said that "Cormac should have been standing here instead of me," and went on to say, as a tearful team manager Mickey Harte had previously done only minutes before, that Cormac immediately stated after he had been appointed captain that he had not wished the success achieved in 2003 to be his last with the county. The tens of thousands of Tyrone fans who were on the pitch after Tyrone won the match then began to chant Cormac's name on what was an intensely emotional day for all those involved in Gaelic Games in Tyrone. Brian Dooher is an Irish Gaelic Footballer who plays for Co. ...

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External links

• The Cormac Trust
• Campa Chormaic
• Cormac McAnallen's GAC Australia
• Club Tyrone
• Official Tyrone Website
• Official GAA Website
• UCD Remembers Cormac McAnallen
• RTE notice of death